Saturday, January 17, 2009

Culture

The Physics Of The Mushroom Kingdom Are Worthy Of Research

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Glenn Elert is a physics teacher from Brooklyn. He and his students did a little research recently, and published a serious paper reporting their findings. How serious? Mushroom Kingdom serious. More »
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Child’s Play Done For The Year, Final Amount Tallied

2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Another year passes, another Child’s Play charity drive winds up. Each year it seems to be getting bigger, grander, more charitable, so let’s take a look and see how much you lot managed to raise. More »

Homebrew Wii HDD Workaround Succeeds Where Nintendo Does Not

1:30PM Luke Plunkett | No HDD on the Wii eh, Nintendo? Big mistake. Makes Wii owners sad. Never mind, while Nintendo may be lacking the will to make a storage device for the Wii, others are more adventurous. More »
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UK Female Devs Make More Money Than UK Male Devs

1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | According to game site MCV, women in the UK game industry make more than their male counterparts. But how much more is the question. More »

NPD Say PC Sales Are Down, Down, Down

12:30PM Luke Plunkett | 2008’s NPD numbers are now out there for analysis. So let the analysis commence! Up for discussion tonight are PC sales numbers, and how the NPD Group tell us they’re down 14% from 2007. More »
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Rockstar: No Grand Theft Auto ‘V’ In 2009

11:40AM Michael McWhertor | The most recent issue of Game Informer contains “loose talk” that Rockstar Games is readying a new Grand Theft Auto, a fully-fledged follow up to GTA IV for the holidays. Not so, say Rockstar reps. More »

A Whirled All Its Own

11:20AM AJ Glasser | My impressions of Puzzle Pirates developer Three Rings’ new project were coloured by the minor car accident I got into on my way to check it out. More »
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Now Everyone Can Shoot Nazi Zombies In Call Of Duty

11:00AM Luke Plunkett | Didn’t much care for World at War. Seemed a bit…trashy. But the bit at the end, where you can kill Nazi zombies? Loved that bit. And as of today, everyone can love it. More »

The U.S.’s Top 20 Games From December Are An Odd Mix

10:40AM Michael McWhertor | The NPD Group’s top ten bestselling video games contain very few surprises; it’s filled with Nintendo super-hits for the Wii, hyper-violent shooters and Guitar Hero. But the top twenty games from December mix things up. More »